Rationalism (n.) that calls the dragon “only artificial” uses the same apotropaic trick as the schizophrenic who says “it's all a fake” — he dreamed the sun and moon were made of oiled paper.
Rationalism (n.) held consciously breeds an extreme irrationality below; the scientific attitude grows an archaic, superstitious twin.
A Rationalism (n.) looks, to the irrational type, only half alive: someone bent on chaining everything living with reason and choking it with judgments.
Rationalism (n.) belittled the irrational and so drove it into the unconscious, where it wreaks endless havoc like a disease whose source cannot be removed because no one can see it.
Rationalism (n.) is the flat denial of whatever opposes one's way of seeing — as monistic and tyrannical toward reason itself.
Rationalism (n.) is itself an instinctive exaggeration — the very instinct that makes us deny how much instinct rules us.
Rationalism (n.) about death — death as mere meaningless cessation — isolates a man from his own human nature and comes unexpectedly close to a neurotic symptom: distorted thinking cut off from the heart, the tap-root.
Rationalism (n.) is no guarantee of higher consciousness, merely of a one-sided one.
Rationalism (n.) is, in its hybris, tearing our consciousness from its transcendent roots and holding immanent goals before it.
Rationalism (n.) is rooted in fear of metaphysics — the two always hostile brothers; so whatever comes from the dark is either 'from outside, hence real' or 'hallucination, hence untrue'.
Rationalism (n.) now shelters all the powers of the underworld: under its mask a stubborn faith imposes itself by fire and sword, rivalling the darkest church militant.
The Rationalism (n.) meets very strange things in the unconscious, turns away in horror, and afterwards claims he saw nothing.
Rationalism (n.) and superstition are complementary: the brighter the conscious light, the blacker the shadow, and rationality is largely an apotropaic defence against an ever-present superstition.